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centuries. Sir George Stokes commenced as an under- 
graduate in Pembroke College: his first experimental 
work was made when he was a junior Fellow. He 
(Lord Kelvin) well remembered that in Pembroke Col- 
lege there were no physical laboratories, and the first 
physical laboratory in European Universities, he believed 
—certainly in these islands—was in Sir George Stokes’s 
rooms, which he occupied as a junior Fellow about the 
year 1840 to 1843. If they considered the condition of 
natural philosophy in 1840 and in the present year, they 
might form some idea of how vast had been the results 
of his labours. Lord Kelvin pointed out that Sir George 
Stokes had the courage and spirit to take up subjects 
absolutely beyond the range of all the mathematicians 
of his age. Sound, light, elasticity, mathematical 
problems on the one hand, properties of matter 
on the other, were his studies, and the results had 
been of splendid benefit to the world of science. 
To him was due the credit for having published in 
lectures, if not in print, the grand theory of spectrum 
analysis. But his published papers contained but a 
small part of the work he had done for science. All 
workers in science in the University of Cambridge, all 
the communicators of papers to the Royal Society 
during the thirty years he was Secretary and the five 
years he was President, would agree with him in saying 
that Sir George Stokes had published in his own name 
but a very small part of the good he had done to the 
world. There was a debt of gratitude due to him, not 
only for what he had published, but for what he had done 
for others. He had published papers, and the discoveries 
contained therein had produced a monument more 
enduring than marble. But, still, they would like to 
have a marble monument, a tangible and visible sign for 
the men who knew him and the work he had done ; and, 
therefore, it was a great privilege indeed to be allowed 
to unveil the two busts, one designed for the University 
of Cambridge and the other for Pembroke College. 
The busts were received by the Vice-Chancellor on 
behalf of the University and—in the absence, through 
ill-health, of the Master—by the Rev. C. H. Prior, Senior 
Tutor of Pembroke, on behalf of the College. We are 
informed that Mr. Hamo Thornycroft will undertake the 
production of bronze copies of his bust of Sir George 
Stokes, about one-third of the size of the original, at a 
cost of seven guineas each, in case more than twenty-five 
are ordered. Names will be received by Sir William 
Crookes, 7 Kensington Park Gardens, W., and by Prof. 
Perry, Royal College of Science, S.W. 
On Friday, June 2, the more important functions of 
the jubilee took place. At 11 a.m. the delegates were 
received by the Vice-Chancellor in the Senate House, 
and in the chronological order of the foundation of the 
institutions they represented, they tendered their ad- 
dresses of congratulation to Sir George Stokes. The 
name of each delegate and of the institution he repre- 
sented was announced by Mr. J. W. Clark, the Registrary. 
The delegate then advanced and presented his address 
to the Vice-Chancellor, who handed it to Sir George 
Stokes. At the close of the presentation Sir George, in 
a short speech, said he often thought in reviewing a long 
life that he might have worked harder, and he attributed 
his longevity to his “ comparative idleness,” a sentiment 
which found considerable favour with the undergraduates 
in the gallery. 
The presentation commenced with the delegates from 
the University of Paris, and the following is a list of the 
institutions represented and of those chosen to represent 
them :— 
University of France—Prof. Gaston Darboux, Doyen de 
la Faculté des Sciences. 
University of Oxford—Sir William Reynell Anson, Bart., 
M.P., and Robert Edward Baynes, M.A., Lee’s Reader in 
Physics. 
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University of St. Andrews—P. R. Scott Lang, M.A., Regius 
Professor of Mathematics. 
University of Glasgow—Very Rev. Robert Herbert Story, 
D.D., Principal, and Lord Kelvin, M.A., Hon. LL.D., 
G.G.V.0. 
University of Aberdeen—Sir William Duguid Geddes, LL.D., 
Principal. 
University of Edinburgh—George Chrystal, M.A , Professor 
of Mathematics, and G, F. Armstrong, M.A., Professor of 
Engineering. 
University of Dublin—George Salmon, D.D., Provost, and 
Benjamin Williamson, M.A., D.Sc. 
Royal Society—Lord Lister, Hon. LL.D., President ; Alfred 
Bray Kempe, M.A., Treasurer; Michael Foster, M.A., Pro- 
fessor of Physiology ; Arthur William Riicker, M.A. (Oxon.), 
Professor of Physics, Royal College of Science, Secretaries. 
Academie des Sciences, Paris—Prof. Becquerel. 
Konigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin—Friedrich 
Kohlrausch, Director of the Physikalisch Technische Reichsan- 
stalt, Charlottenburg. 
Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu 
Riecke, Professor of Physics. 
New York, Columbia University—Robert S. Woodward, 
Ph. D., Professor of Mechanics and Mathematical Physics, Dean 
of the Faculty of Pure Science. 
Princeton University, New Jersey—Prof. Edgar Odele Lovett. 
Bataafsch Genootschap voor Physika, Rotterdam—Dr. Elie 
van Rijckevorsel. 
Académie Royale des Sciences des Lettres et des Beaux 
Arts de Belgique—Prof. Alphonse Rénard, Prof. G. Van der 
Mensbrugghe. 
Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society— Reginald 
Felix Gwyther, M.A., Sen. Sec. 
Royal Irish Academy—Earl of Rosse, K.P., President, 
George F. FitzGerald, M.A., Professor of Natural and Experi- 
mental Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin. 
Royal Society of Edinburgh—Lord Kelvin, M.A., Hon. 
LL.D., President, and Sir John Murray, K.C.B., Hon. Se. D. 
St. Edmund’s College, Ware—Right Rev. J. L. Patterson, 
M.A. (Oxon.), Titular Bishop of Emmaus. 
Ecole Polytechnique—Prof. Cornu and Prof. Becquerel. 
Ecole Normale Supérieure—Mons. Borel, Professor of 
Mechanics and Astronomy. 
Royal Institution—Sir J. Crichton Browne, M.D. (Edinb.), 
Treasurer, 
Philosophical Society of Glasgow—Lord Blythswood. 
Cambridge Philosophical Society—Joseph Larmor, M.A., 
President. 
Royal Astronomical Society—George Howard Darwin, M.A., 
Plumian Professor of Astronomy, President. 
McGill University, Montreal—Lord Strathcona and Mount 
Royal, Hon. LL.D.., G.C.M.G., High Commissioner in Great 
Britain of the Dominion of Canada, Henry Taylor Bovey, M.A., 
Professor of Engineering. 
University of Toronto—R. 
Professor of Biology. 
St. David’s College, Lampeter—A. W. Scott, M.A., Trinity 
College (Dubl.), Professor of Physical Science and Mathematics. 
Institution of Civil Engineers—William Henry Preece, C.B., 
President. 
King’s College, London—Archibald Robertson, D,D. (Dur- 
ham), Principal. 
British Association—Sir William Crookes, President. 
University of Durham—Ralph Allen Sampson, M.A., Pro- 
fessor of Mathematics. 
Cambridge Ray Club— Alfred Newton, M.A., Professor of 
Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. 
London Chemical Society—Dr. T. E. Thorpe. 
Queen’s College, Belfast—Thomas Hamilton, D.D., Presi- 
dent. 
Queen’s College, Galway — Alexander 
President. 
University of Sydney—Philip Sydney Jones, M.D, (Lond.), 
Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney. 
Royal College of Science, London—John Wesley Judd, C.B. 
LL.D., Dean ; W. A. Tilden, Professor of Chemistry. 
The Owens College, Manchester—Alfred Hopkinson, Q.C., 
M.A., Principal. 
Royal Academies of Sciences of Amsterdam—J. D. van der 
Waals, Professor of Experimental Physics. 
Gottingen— Edward 
Ramsay Wright, M.A., B.Sc., 
Anderson, MA. 
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